..India has among the highest rates of infant malnutrition. Few studies investigating the growth patterns of HIV-exposed infants in India or the impact of timing of HIV infection on growth in settings such as India exist...

..Top milk, the alternative for breast-milk used in this population, however, must be investigated further to assess its nutritional value and safety before it can be endorsed widely for infants of HIV(+) women...

Replacement-fed infants born to HIV-infected mothers in India have a high early postpartum rate of hospitalization

Mridula A PhadkeDepartment of Medical Education and Research, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai, IndiaJ Nutr 133:3153-7. 2003

..Such interventions would be valuable additions to the very effective national prevention programs that currently rely on the provision of short-course zidovudine and nevirapine...